Workshops and Fellowships

Reporting the news creates unique security risks. Protecting sources and sensitive documents is vital to a free press, but challenging due to Internet surveillance and widespread data collection. This SEJ NYC Meetup/CryptoParty NYC event in Brooklyn will cover how to securely manage sensitive information by using encryption software.

This Media Law Resource Center workshop and roundtable in Doral, Florida is for freelancers, bloggers, reporters, editors in print, digital or video spaces, podcasters — any media worker without the benefit of a legal department. Top media lawyers will give practical advice on numerous topics; editors and writers will share tips and strategies on career paths and story pitches.

Boston University's 2021 Summer Journalism Institute gives students ages 14 to 18 the opportunity to expand their skills and prepare for college during a time of uncertainly and limited travel due to ongoing pandemic. Choose from three two-week sessions. Scholarships available. Deadline: June 1, 2021.

News Hack Arizona is Feb 18-19 on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson. The training is hands-on group work to learn to use sensors to collect your own data for stories. The sensors can measure noise and air quality among other things.

The Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources will bring a group of journalists to Waukesha, the first U.S. city outside of the Great Lakes watershed to receive permission to withdraw water under the Great Lakes Compact, to see how the city will get water from Lake Michigan, treat it and send it back to the basin while also discussing its bigger-picture impacts. Apply ASAP; space is limited.

The intensive, fully funded FASPE Journalism program in professional ethics and ethical leadership takes fellows to Germany and Poland, Jun 21- Jul 5, 2024, to examine the actions and choices of German and international journalists in covering and supporting Nazi policies. Apply by Jan 2.

The Asian American Journalists Association offers a one-day leadership and career development event open to all media and communications professionals, at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. Deadline: Nov 11.

Are you hunting for inspiration and tools to elevate your beat writing? Invest in your creativity and your career with this writing workshop led by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and world-renowned writing coach Jacqui Banaszynski, Jan 9-13, 2017 at the Madeline Island School of the Arts in Wisconsin.

Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) is committed to creating public media career pathways for traditionally underrepresented individuals. This paid internship role in Portland, OR generally serves as a Production Assistant in the daily radio show Think Out Loud. Deadline to apply: Nov 1, 2016.

Journalists (especially indigenous and those from developing countries) are invited to apply to Earth Journalism Network's Fellowship program during the 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Cancun, Mexico, in December 2016.